Welcome to EPIC Easter Online!
This is an activity book that goes with the online holiday club Epic Easter Online. You can watch this daily at 10am on 7th, 8th and 9th of April 2021
(the videos will also be available to watch later) at the Union Baptist Church website:
www.unionbaptist.org.uk/easter-holiday-club or our Youtube channel:
Union Baptist Church High Wycombe
We invite you to enter our daily competitions and upload videos of our challenges on the website. You need your parent’s permission for this!
We hope you’ll have lots of fun with us as we
explore the story of what happened after the first ever Easter!
With Easter greetings from the
Day 1, (7
thApril) Recognising Jesus
Today’s Minute to Win It
Challenge is: Easter Egg Blow Off! You will need:
• A large flat plate or pizza tray • Small wrapped chocolate eggs
• Permission from your parents to do this game!
Arrange the eggs on a pizza tray with many
coloured Easter eggs and 3 white Easter eggs (or a colour of your choice). You must blow all the
coloured Easter eggs off the pizza tray while keeping the 3 white ones on the tray.
Your parent(s) can upload a video of you doing this challenge to be shown on future days at
Today’s story
As two of Jesus friends walked along a road feeling down and confused they were joined by somebody they didn’t recognise at first…
Luke 24:13-35
13 That same day two of
Jesus' disciples were going to the village of Emmaus, which was about seven miles
from Jerusalem. 14 As
they were talking and thinking about what had happened, 15 Jesus
came near and started walking along beside them. 16 But they did not know who he was.
17 Jesus asked
them, “What were you talking about as you walked
The two of them stood there looking sad and gloomy. 18 Then the one named Cleopas asked
Jesus, “Are you the only person from Jerusalem who didn’t know what was happening there these last few days?”
19 “What do you mean?” Jesus asked.
They answered: Those things that happened to
Jesus from Nazareth. By
what he did and said he showed
that he was a powerful prophet, who pleased God and all the people. 20 Then the chief
priests and our leaders had him arrested and sentenced to die on a cross. 21 We had hoped
that he would be the one to set Israel free! But it has already been three days since all this
22 Some women in our group surprised us.
They had gone to the tomb early in the
morning, 23 but did not find the body of Jesus.
They came back, saying that they had seen a vision of angels who told them that he is
alive. 24 Some men from our group went to
the tomb and found it just as the women had said. But they didn’t see Jesus either.
25 Then Jesus asked the two disciples, “Why
can’t you understand? How can you be so slow to believe all that the prophets
said? 26 Didn’t you know that the Messiah
would have to suffer before he was given his glory?” 27 Jesus then explained everything
written about himself in the Scriptures, beginning with the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets.[a]
28 When the two of them came near the
village where they were going, Jesus seemed to be going farther. 29 They begged him, “Stay
down.” So Jesus went into the house to stay with them.
30 After Jesus sat down
to eat, he took some bread. He blessed it and broke it. Then he gave it to them. 31 At
once they knew who he was, but he
disappeared. 32 They said to each other,
“When he talked with us along the road and explained the Scriptures to us, didn’t it warm our hearts?” 33 So
they got right up and returned to Jerusalem. The two disciples found the eleven apostles and the others gathered together. 34 And they
learned from the group that the Lord was
really alive and had appeared to Peter. 35 Then
happened on the road and how they knew he was the Lord when he broke the bread.
Maze challenge: Can you find the way through the maze to Emmaus?
Craft
CD Hovercraft.
1. Use the white disc to create the design for your Hovercraft.
2. Fix to the top of the CD using the double-sided sticky tape (already applied – peel off backing and stick.)
3. Inflate the balloon but do not tie.
4. Use the green twisty tie to seal the neck of the balloon.
5. Carefully place the opening of the balloon over the spout of the bottle top.
6. Hold above the green tie whilst you remove it. Then let go on a smooth surface.
Day 2, (8
thApril) Believing Jesus
Today’s Minute to Win It
Challenge is: Easter Basket Head! You will need:
• A basket or empty ice-cream tub • 10 small wrapped chocolate eggs
• Permission from your parents to do this game!
• Somebody to play with!
Standing 10 feet apart, the first player tries to toss 10 Easter eggs into a basket held on the second player’s head. Eggs that fall out of the basket are not counted.
Your parent(s) can upload a video of you doing this challenge to be shown on future days at
Today’s story
Thomas missed out on seeing Jesus when the other disciples saw him then didn’t believe them until he saw for himself!
John 20:24-29
24 Although
Thomas the Twin was one of the twelve disciples, he wasn’t with the others when Jesus appeared to them. 25 So they told him, “We
have seen the Lord!” But Thomas said,
“First, I must see the nail scars in his hands and touch them with my finger. I must
put my hand where the spear went into his side. I won’t believe unless I do this!”
26 A week later the
disciples were
together again. This time, Thomas was with them. Jesus came in while the doors were still locked and stood in the middle of the group. He greeted his disciples 27 and said to Thomas, “Put your
finger here and look at my
hands! Put your hand into my side. Stop
doubting and have faith!”
28 Thomas replied,
“You are my Lord and my God!”
29 Jesus said,
“Thomas, do you have faith because you have seen me? The people who have faith in me
without seeing me are the ones who are really blessed!”
Wordsearch
BELIEVE BLESSED DISCIPLES EIGHT FINGERS HANDS JESUS LORD PEACE THOMAS TWELVE WOUNDS
Craft
Loving Hands.
1. Choose a piece of paper, I suggest white. Draw around each of your hands.
2. Cut out each hand and turn over so that the thumbs are to the side of the page.
3. Fix hands to a contrasting colour paper. 4. Cut out the two hearts and the banner.
5. Fix one heart into the palm of each hands (the hearts reflect the wounds of Jesus and His love for you.) 6. Either at the bottom or top fix the banner.
If you don’t have scissors
1. Use the white paper to draw around your hand, see if you can do this with your palm facing upward.
2. Draw a heart in the palm of each hand 3. Across the top or bottom you can write
Day 3, (9
thApril) Friends with Jesus
Today’s Minute to Win It Challenge is: Suck it Up! You will need:
• Two bowls
• Drinking straw
• Mini eggs or similar
• Permission from your parents to do this game!
Place the eggs in one bowl. By sucking through the straw and without touching them you must lift the eggs one at a time from one bowl into the other. How many eggs can you move in 1 minute? Your parent(s) can upload a video of you doing this challenge to be shown on future days at
Today’s story
A miraculous catch of fish followed by a BBQ on the beach!
John 21:1-14
Jesus later appeared to his disciples along the shore of Lake Tiberias. 2 Simon Peter,
Thomas the Twin, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, and the brothers James
and John,[a] were
there, together with two other disciples. 3 Simon
Peter said, “I’m going fishing!”
The others said, “We will go with you.” They went out in their boat. But they didn’t catch a thing that
night.
4 Early the next
morning Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not
realize who he was. 5 Jesus shouted, “Friends,
have you caught anything?” “No!” they
answered.
6 So he told them,
“Let your net down on the right side of
your boat, and you will catch some fish.” They did, and the net was so full of fish that they could not drag it up into the boat.
7 Jesus' favourite
disciple told Peter, “It’s the Lord!” When
Simon heard that
it was the Lord, he put on the clothes that he had taken off while he was working. Then he jumped into the water. 8 The boat was only
about a hundred yards from shore. So the other disciples
stayed in the boat and dragged in the net full of fish.
9 When the
disciples got out of the boat, they saw some bread and a charcoal fire with fish on
it. 10 Jesus told his disciples, “Bring some of
the fish you just caught.” 11 Simon Peter got
back into the boat and dragged the net to shore. In it were one hundred fifty-three large fish, but still the net did not rip.
12 Jesus said, “Come
and eat!” But none of the disciples
dared ask who he was. They knew he
was the Lord. 13 Jesus took the bread in his
hands and gave some of it to his disciples. He did the same with the fish. 14 This was the
third time that Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised from death.
Crossword
ACROSS
2. On the coast of a country, there may be sand. 4. Opposite of left.
7. The first meal of the day.
10. To be extravagantly cared for.
11. A way of pushing your body into the air.
DOWN
1. This will get you wet.
3. When something becomes visible. 5. To cast something into the air. 6. The name for Jesus' close friends. 8. Simon Peter was going to do this. 9. Son of God.
Craft
Friendship Bracelet
The card loom has been prepared for you. It is basically a circle, marked into 1/8th sections.
1. Each section has a 1.5cm cut from the edge towards the centre of the circle and a small hole approx. 0.5 cm at the centre.
2. You need 7 threads (provided for you.) knotted at one end, the remaining threads need to be threaded through the hole in the card until the knot is next to the hole. (a) – already prepared. 3. Each thread needs to be placed through 1 slit (b)
4. This will leave 1 slit with no thread.
5. Count three threads to the left and bring this thread down into the empty slit.
6. Now turn the loom so the empty slit is at the bottom.
7. Count 3 threads to the left and bring that thread to the empty slit, repeat. Every few turns pull the not at the back to pull the weaving through.
8. When your bracelet is long enough, loosen all threads, pull through and tie off.
b a
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